Recently I found a new area of interest, quilting. Quilting isn't just making patchwork blankets, you can make all sorts of really nice stuff. I made a small piece of quilt a few weeks ago, this is how I did it.
First I cut some plain backing fabric, some wadding and some fancy material and some sheer nylon into squares roughly 10cm by 10cm. I lined them up and pinned them around the edge. I then used a machine to sew random lines of sewing. I wanted the pieces of nylon that weren't near any sewing to be melted away, at first I tried ironing it but that wasn't hot enough so in the end I dug out a soldering iron and cut the pieces out with that. It did work quite well but on the thinner shapes you had to make sure you actually made an outline around it otherwise it just melted it to the fabric. Then I edged it with zigzag stitch.
That is roughly how to make a quilt piece, although you don't have to use nylon or sew random lines across it, all you really need is a plain backing fabric, some wadding and a nice base material and the rest of the design is up to you.
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